When I split up with my first husband in 1987, a colleague of mine, referencing AIDS, needled me about picking a terrible time to become single again. I've remembered that assholean remark for a quarter century.

"When I split up with my first husband in 1987, a colleague of mine, referencing AIDS, needled me about picking a terrible time to become single again. I've remembered that assholean remark for a quarter century."

There's so many different causes in Hollywood that I'm surprised no one has picked up on this one. I can see Meryl Streep would want to keep her distance, but for other stars it could only enhance their image. On Sunday join Charley Sheen and Lady Gaga as they march for the cure.

Anybody else think it's interesting that this little revelation and the polygamy thing break on the same day?

Could it be somebody is trying to tell us something?

I know, just my imagination...

Jay said...

When I split up with my first husband in 1987, a colleague of mine, referencing AIDS, needled me about picking a terrible time to become single again.

Given that you're not apparently gay or an intravenous drug user, you really had nothing to worry about.

I have a feeling plenty of heterosexual, non-intravenous drug abusers get AIDS. You just don't hear about them. All you had to do was have sex with someone who had sex with someone who was bisexual, or homosexual, or used intravenous drugs.

Sigh. Another thing to worry about. I’m in a monogamous heterosexual FWB relationship of several years but you never know when you might have to go hunting for sex again. The last one I had went back to her ex-husband. And, predictably, regretted it soon after. If you leave, never go back. If they leave, never take them back. Abstinence is not an option I would seriously contemplate. I would take my chances.

The link Jay posted wasn’t reassuring. Heterosexual contact accounted for 44% of the diagnoses. Or is my reading of the chart, “Transmission Category,” wrong? Seems a bit high. Wouldn’t be the first time …

The problem is, we're running out of better drugs to kill these sorts of pathogens, because our drugs have helped evolve organisms that are stronger and better at surviving our attacks. Sometimes we get lucky, and going back to an old drug does the trick, like when I was infected with MRSA 5 years ago and it took a sulfa drug to subdue it.

But the pace of drug development can't keep up, and eventually the old drugs won't work anymore either.

By that time, Obamacare will have really had time to kick in. Guess how fast drug development will happen then?

MadAsHell said: "And you need a victim. We used the gay population for the AIDS conspiracy theory. I'm not sure we can use that again." Ah, but we can. The suffers of the new disease are predominately men involved in anal intercourse. The gay connection is back in play and as fresh as springtime! Huzzah!

More validity to the phrase, "when the country gets a cough, blacks get the flu". I'm not sure all the dynamics at play behind that, but I doubt decades of leaders panhandling race hustles and promoting victimhood helps.

Easy enough to avoid through the use of carefully applied monogamy or, if that is not available, a rubber. (Go on, spring for the whole $1 that will set you back.) Reminds me of a cartoon I saw in Playboy back in the 70's: Doctor looking slyly at attractive blond in his office - "Yes, you can get VD in bathrooms, so I'd suggest you stop screwing in them."